This is my awesome list of things I've found that I think are rather good. I hope that you find something useful here.

• Cloud & Networking
• Command Line Tools
• Desktop Applications
• Mobile Applications
• Obsidian Plugins
• Productivity
• Research
• Software Development

Cloud & Networking

• Active Pieces - open-source automation tool that can be self-hosted.
• Ergo - modern IRC server with IRCv3 features.
• Linkding - collect and share links and bookmarks.
• Mastodon - social network (server of choice: mastodonapp.uk).
• Navidrome - personal music streaming service.
• Plausible Analytics - privacy-friendly and open-source website analytics with self-hosting solution.
• Proton Mail - privacy-first and open-source email hosting (also calendars, file storage, VPN, and password manager).
• SearXNG - self-hosted search.
• Syncthing - sychronise directories between two or more computers.
• The Lounge - web-based IRC client.
• Uptime Kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool (see status.blakerain.com for mine).
• ZeroTier - peer-to-peer networking and mesh infrastructure.

Command Line Tools

If you're reading this section, you may also want to peek at my dotfiles.

• ag - the silver searcher replacement for ack.
• atuin - sync and search shell history across devices.
• bat - a better cat.
• catppuccin - pastel theme (e.g. for tmux).
• duf - a better df.
• dust - a more intuitive version of du.
• eza - powerful replacement for ls (replaces exa).
• fzf - command-line fuzzy-finder.
• lazydocker - terminal UI for Docker.
• lazygit - terminal UI for git.
• neovim - my preferred editor.
• oh-my-posh - fast and customizable shell prompt.
• powerlevel10k - Zsh theme.
• ripgrep - recursively search for a pattern.
• xplr - terminal file explorer.
• yazi - terminal file explorer.
• zsh - my shell of choice.

Tmux Plugins

These are the plugins that I use with tmux, loaded via tpm.

• Catppuccin Tmux - A catppuccin theme for tmux with nice status components.
• EasyJump - EasyMotion for Tmux.
• Extrakto - complete commands with text that is already on the screen.
• tmux-fzf - use fzf to manage tmux.
• tmux-menus - popup menus for tmux.
• tmux-mode-indicator - displays a prompt indicating active tmux mode.

Desktop Applications

• 1 Password - my password manager of choice (also provides a CLI).
• Balena Etcher - fairly good tool to flash OS images.
• Blender - open-source 3D modelling software (and so much more).
• Cleanshot - my favourite screenshot tool for macOS.
• Colorslurp - excellent color picker (for macOS).
• NetNewsWire - RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
• Easy Move+Resize - move and resize windows on macOS like on X.
• Feishin - modern desktop music player.
• Halloy - open-source desktop IRC client with IRCv3 support.
• Hammerspoon - open-source automation of macOS with Lua.
• iTerm2 - my go-to terminal emulator for macOS.
• PixelSnap - on-screen measurement tool for macOS.
• Raycast - launcher replacement for macOS.
• RustDesk - an open-source alternative to TeamViewer.
• Stats - awesome open-source stats for macOS.
• Thunderbird - advanced mail client.
• Zotero - collect and organise papers and other documents.

Mobile Applications

• Igloo - an IRC client for mobile with IRCv3 features.
• Mona - a Mastodon client for iOS.

Obsidian Plugins

• Advanced Slides - create markdown-based presentation in Obsidian.
• Chat Stream - create branching GPT chats using canvas notes.
• CustomJS - use JavaScript to customize Obsidian.
• Dataview - query Obsidian vault as if it was a database.
• Excalidraw - edit Excalidraw diagrams directly in Obsidian.
• Full Calendar - Obsidian integration with Full Calendar.
• Kanban - create markdown-backed Kanban boards in Obsidian.
• Obsidian Charts - create charts in Obsidian. Use with Dataview.
• Obsidian Clipper - capture highlights from the web.
• Projects - plain text project planning.
• QuickAdd - quickly add new pages or content to Obsidian.
• Tasks - task management for Obsidian.

Productivity

• Asciiflow - web application for drawing ASCII diagrams.
• Bibtex Converter - online bibtex converter.
• Detexify - amazing app that lets you draw symbols to find their LaTeX name.
• Excalidraw - awesome diagram app.
• Mom Macros - powerful macros for groff.
• MyBib - havard bibliography generator
• NBT Editor - an online NBT editor.
• Obsidian - a markdown-based note-taking application with many powerful community-built plugins.
• Readwise Reader - a powerful read-it-later app. I like to synchronise my highlights and notes with Obsidian.
• tldraw - a web-based whiteboard application
• troff documentation - links to documentation for TROFF tools.

Research

• LLM-Agent-Paper-List (mirror) - a large list of papers from 2309.07864 (Zhiheng, et al. 2023).
• papers-we-love - papers from the compter science community to read and discus.

Software Development

• Blockbench - low-poly 3D model editor, useful for Minecraft mods.
• Favicon Generator - generates all the icons and metadata for apps and websites.
• Forgejo - An ambitious fork of Gitea.
• Gitea - powerful web-interface for git.
• Google Webfonts Helper - download web fonts from Google Fonts.
• Landing Page Templates - FOSS landing page templates.
• Lucide - my current favourite set of SVG icons.
• Markdown Badges - list of useful markdown badges.
• Portainer - container management for Docker and Kubernetes.
• Tailwind CSS - my favourite CSS framework.
• Tailwind Color - app to find the nearest tailwind color.
• Tailwind Palette Generator - generate tailwind palettes from a color.
• Yew icons - loads of SVG icons in a Yew widget library (docs.rs).